You Are Defended - Chapter 563



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Episode 563

“As you know, the lawyers at Jeongdo Law Firm are helping the volunteer club that falsely claimed that the orphanage abused student A. We need to find out why this false claim came out. That’s why I met the students from the volunteer club in person and asked them some questions.”

At Jo Bong-jun’s signal, Kim Jeong-woo played the next video.

The location in the video is a studio conference room.

The characters are Choi Jong-hyeon, Jo Bong-jun, and the high school students in charge of the Angel’s House volunteer team.

[─Please introduce yourself briefly.

─Hello. I am Ppi- from the Ppi- club, Ppi- from the Ppi- daycare center education volunteer team, and Ppi- from the Mathematics Education Department at Ppi- University. I was in charge of high school mathematics education.

─I am P-bi from the English Education Department of P-bi University. I also helped with English studies in high schools.

─I am a student of the Ppidae Educational Technology Department, and I also helped with English studies in high school.]

Public opinion criticizing college student volunteers has now disappeared, and instead, sympathy has emerged, so fortunately, they readily agreed to be interviewed.

Their identities were mosaic-processed and their voices were altered to hide them, and they were all wearing T-shirts distributed by the club, so even if the broadcast aired, no one would be able to identify who they were.

[─Beep- I’d like to ask you a question about the student. Beep- What are you usually like?

─He was just ordinary. He liked playing more than studying. He wasn’t very active, but he wasn’t quiet either. He was just like any other student his age.

─Then, at what point did student Beep stop showing up at Beep? Do you happen to know when that point was?

─I saw the two of you on TV. Beep- It was in May when the student sent an email to the lawyers saying that he had run away from home and asked for help. I don’t remember the exact date, but it was on a Saturday.

─Yes, that’s right.

─When we checked, Beep- was there on Friday, the day before he sent the email to the lawyers. When we went out to volunteer the following Monday, Beep- was not there. So when we asked the students, they said he suddenly disappeared on Friday night.]

Before leaving for Munyeok on Saturday, I asked Choi Jong-hyeon to check if Son Jeong-min had really run away.

At that time, a volunteer directly contacted the student at Angel’s House and asked about Son Jeong-min, and received an answer right away on Saturday.

But wouldn’t it be a good thing if our relationship with the students became known now?

So, it was adapted appropriately.

[─Then, can we assume that Beep- ran away from home on Friday night and contacted the lawyers on Saturday?

─Yes, that’s right.

─The student and the lawyers were not able to contact each other. That day, Beep- disappeared with the adults at the station. And you are saying that he did not return to Beep- on Monday either?

─Yes. It wasn’t there until we finished our service.

─Have you ever asked the Beep side about the Beep student running away from home?

─Yes. Some people said they didn’t know, some said not to worry about it, and some said they were having a hard time staying at the bee- and were looking into whether they could move to another facility.

─You said you were looking elsewhere? Does that mean that the Beep side is looking into it?

─Well, that’s what it felt like. I couldn’t ask for details because he told me not to try to find out. I asked because I was worried, but it might also be presumptuous.

─When did you receive the reply that they were looking into whether you could enter another facility?

─It’s Monday. The day I confirmed you ran away.]

As soon as Choi Jong-hyun finished speaking, responses started pouring in from the chat window that had been slowly flowing.

[I want to eat gwamegi: Didn’t they say that in ㅊㅅㅇㅈ, the child suddenly ran away from home and they were looking for him? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Kim Satgat Satgat: You said it was really hard to get in touch with youㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ From what I saw in the interview, it seems like it took at least a weekㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

kim hyun-ah: Why does ㅊㅅㅇㅈ joke around so much…?]

[─Then we confirmed that Student Beep was with adults on Saturday, the day that Student Beep sent the email, and after that, Student Beep disappeared from the daycare center, right?

─Yes.

─Then honestly… … . Of course, I confirmed that Beep- student was with adults from the beginning, but let’s leave that aside for now. If those adults are indeed from the daycare center, then at least from Saturday, doesn’t that mean that the daycare center staff had contact with Beep- student? So, well, we concluded that we would have in-depth conversations throughout the weekend and look into new facilities. Is that okay to think about?

─That’s what we thought.]

At this point, Choi Jong-hyun paused the video for a moment.

“Okay, everyone. As the article says, the orphanage searched for student A who had run away from home and finally made contact with him. So through conversation, they learned that student A had been working at a construction site to cover his living expenses. So when exactly did student A work at the construction site?”

Jo Bong-jun immediately put the calendar on the screen.

“Let’s talk about this. He ran away on Friday night, and on Saturday, he was with some adults. Construction work usually starts at dawn, right? So he couldn’t have worked on Saturday. So, did he work on Sunday? Then, the daycare center must have contacted Student A on Monday afternoon at the latest. The volunteers heard the story from the daycare center on Monday afternoon. So, he used the wages he received on Sunday until Monday morning. Do you call that living expenses? Normally, it wouldn’t have been even 24 hours.”

“I have so many questions. So who were the adults who contacted the runaway youth on Saturday? Did they not have the compassion to give the runaway youth some pocket money?”

[Who is this? Hwang Hyun-hee: Ahh …

Jeong Min-wook Man: Haha …

korea11: cownew You have a lot of money but you’re so stingyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

While the viewers were cursing the heartless adults who couldn’t even give him 10,000 won, Kim Jung-woo resumed playing the video that he had paused for a moment.

[─Ah, but you continued your volunteer work for another month after P-ga disappeared. I find this a bit odd. Let’s say that P-ga was dramatically found on Sunday or Monday morning and the facility staff had an in-depth conversation with P-ga. Then P-ga would have said at that time, right? That he was being harassed by you. That’s why he can’t go back.

─Assuming what those people say is true, then yes.

─Then, didn’t Beep- question you about the bullying on Monday?

─Not at all. That’s why we were so surprised when we first saw the news that it was our fault that Beep-ga ran away.

─Then, I heard that you did volunteer work for a month after running away from home, and then quit a while ago. You’ve been doing volunteer work for quite some time, so why did you stop? Everyone thought that your volunteer work ended because of the abuse incident.]

The male student sitting in the middle sighed deeply at Choi Jong-hyun’s question.

Although he cannot be identified in the post-processed footage, it was Kim Hyun-jong.

He was almost falsely accused of being violent towards Seongyoon.

[─Something happened.

─Can you elaborate?

─There was a friend there who had been close with Ppi-wa for a long time. I’ll call him Min-su, using his pseudonym.

─That friend Minsu is also a student who stays at that facility with the student Beep, right?

─Yes. The two of them were very close. They depended on each other a lot. But after Ppi- ran away, Min-su seemed to be having a hard time too. When I listened to what other kids said, I heard that Min-su worried a lot about Ppi-.

─Have you ever tried talking to Minsu?

─Yes. Minsu said he never expected that Beep would disappear, and that he hadn’t been able to contact Beep at all since. Anyway, we were a bit worried about Minsu. He had become noticeably quiet.

─By the way, did something happen?

─One day, Minsu called me and said he had something to tell me separately.]

Seongyoon’s story has not yet been revealed to the public.

If Wooshin fails to find fault with Jeongmin, he will probably make Seongyoon the next sacrifice.

It might be better not to bring up Sungyoon’s story, as it would make them let their guard down and proceed with Soeun’s surgery.

But in Jeongmin’s case, his identity was revealed faster than I expected.

There’s no law that says Seongyoon can’t do that, right?

That must be stopped.

[Minsu took me to the end of the hallway, where he suddenly committed suicide.]

As soon as the word self-harm appeared, the chat window was filled with question marks again.

[Who opened the door like this? Hwang Hyun-hee: ??????????

O Myung Hwa Pharmaceuticals: Self-harm????????????

Kim Satgat Satgat: ?

Jin Ramen Mild Flavor: ???

Enlistment D19: ??????

Leesooyoung: It’s self-harm;]

[─Self-harm? Is that the self-harm I know?

─Yes. But it wasn’t like there was any bleeding or anything. He hit his own head really hard, and his cheek turned red… … He probably left a bruise. He hit me really hard.

─Oh, I’m glad there was no bloodshed. So, what did you do?

─Of course I stopped him. He hit me so hard that my face was swollen, how could I just watch that? So I grabbed his arm and stopped him, and Minsu started to yell at me to let go. While we were wrestling like that, the director suddenly showed up and yelled at me, asking what I was doing.

─To whom? To Minsu?

─I thought so too, but I wasn’t.]

This is a story I heard in real time while exchanging contacts with Kim Hyun-jong at the time of the incident, but watching the video again is still unbelievable.

Is the director of an orphanage really in her right mind, ordering a child to beat herself up so much that her face is swollen and falsely accused?

It’s so absurd that I feel fortunate that they didn’t tell me to harm myself by drawing blood.

[─Then, did the director misunderstand something?

─That’s right. If you look back now, it seems like I was trying to subdue the kid arbitrarily, and Minsu’s face was bright red, so it’s not that I don’t understand.

─So what happened?

─The director asked me if I hit the kid, and I said no. Then he asked Minsu. I thought that Minsu would tell the truth until then, so I should talk to the director separately. I thought that Minsu was in a deep psychological corner, so I should suggest treatment… … That’s what I was thinking. But then Minsu suddenly said that I did hit him.]

As soon as the story of Seongyoon’s approval came out, public opinion among viewers rapidly worsened.

[Kim Seung-hyun: Are you crazy?

Pa Song Song Egg Table: ????? Did Min-su come back?

Minhyuk: Why is Minsu like that?;;;;

Jeongapapa: Wow… Are you determined to ruin that person’s life;;

I want to eat gwamegi: This is not just Minsu who should be criticized, it smells…]

“Everyone, I recommend that you stop swearing at Minsu and continue watching the video.”

Even though it was a fake name, when Sungyoon started to receive excessive criticism, Choi Jonghyun and Jo Bongjun came forward and calmed down the viewers.

[─So the director told me to follow her for now. While I was following her, I really felt like my head was going blank. If I can’t resolve the misunderstanding with the director… … . The daycare center has a duty to report me. Of course they’ll report me. Even if they clear my name after the investigation, it would be like a bolt from the blue for me anyway.

─So what happened?

─I went to the director’s office to talk to him, but he didn’t listen to a single word I said and just kept verbally abusing me. Even though I said I never hit him, he didn’t seem to want to listen… … To be honest, he kept saying he was going to report me, to the point where I wondered if he had already decided on an answer.

─Still, it feels like things have been sorted out now. Have you cleared up the misunderstanding?

─Yes. Since you kept saying you would report it, I felt like I couldn’t continue the conversation, so I sent you the video.

─If it’s a video, what kind of video is it?

─I think a friend in our club heard something. He was wrongly accused of abuse and suffered. That’s why I wore glasses with a camera attached that day because I was worried something might happen to us. Oh, and I also checked to see if there were any legal issues. I wore the glasses after making sure there were no issues. I hope there are no misunderstandings.

─There was a scene in there where Minsu was harming himself, and you showed that video to the director?

─That’s right. Then you became a dumb person who had eaten honey.]

The chat window, which had been filled with only insults directed at the director, suddenly became lively.

[Myeonghwa Pharmaceuticals: Wow, this is so cool!!!!!!!!!!

Jeong Min-wook: If there really weren’t cameras, it would’ve been a real mess;;;;

chris park: I should buy some beef for the friend who asked me to wear those glasses on the camera lol

cownew : I almost messed up my life…

Pa Song Song Egg Table: You should have listened to what people said properly. It was a big mistake to decide the answer and then just go with it. LOL

[I’ll pay off my debt with a lemon: Did you get an apology from the director??????????]

What about apples?

Far from apologizing, it was actually counterproductive.

[─Ah, you weren’t a dumb person who ate honey. Rather, you were making a fuss saying that filming wasn’t illegal. So I explained that it wasn’t illegal, but you still felt a bit dissatisfied with us because Minsu tried to frame me by harming himself… … To be honest, you insisted that we might have emotionally abused Minsu and that we should end our volunteer work.

─So you blamed the club until the end?

─That’s right. You came out like that without even a word of apology, and although we became very attached to the Beep- kids, there was no reason for us to continue serving at Beep- while being treated like that. That’s why we ended it.]

The director’s inconsiderate response was enough to arouse everyone’s indignation.

Of course, most people seemed to be limiting the director’s problem to just one ‘bullshit’.

Some viewers seemed to have inferred from that short conversation that the director’s attitude was suspicious, but others thought that they might have been overly suspicious due to their own resentment toward Wooshin.

So we decided to let them know that their suspicions were not excessive.